6 Recipes for Obese Dogs

Six recipes for obese dogs comes to cover the need for many people to lose the weight of their best friend and have it as healthy as possible without having to resort to expensive diet products for dogs, one of the biggest scams in the field of pet food for part of the manufacturers.

Obesity is the most common form of malnutrition affecting dogs in Western countries. Estimates suggest that up to 45 percent of dogs in these countries are obese. The normal ranges for a breed depend on height and morphology, a very objective evaluation being necessary to decide where an individual falls in their weight or not. Their age and life will also influence their physical appearance.

Many people do not know how to lose weight in their dog and turn to human diets or worse, to dog food, which is one of the biggest hoaxes in the dry food industry. Today I bring you the entrance 6 Recipes for Obese Dogs with the idea of ​​teaching you how to control your best friend's weight without starving at all.

Foreword

Like everything in the life of our pet, its correct nutrition is our responsibility. It is our responsibility to give you a balanced and nutritious diet that keeps you at your ideal weight and does not mean a loss of nutrients and energy.

First of all, you have to know that poorly fed or overfed dogs are also suffering from stress associated with food. About food stress in dogs, I wrote earlier in the post Dogs and food stress. Tackling this issue depends on us and the approach we want to give it. It is so difficult for a nutritionist to make a dog lose weight as a person, therefore, everything will depend on the desire and patience, which as everyone knows, is the mother of all sciences.

My dog ​​is fat

Gender and race influences

Humans tend to look for all kinds of reasons to justify our weight. That of our pets of course was not going to be less.

It is installed in the popular belief that, for example, females gain more weight than males, or that castration is a reason for obesity. This type of popular culture does no one any favors (and much less the animal) and rather than moving away from the solution, it installs us squarely in the problem, since we will install a series of beliefs that more than motivate us to achieve the goal of weight change, it will give us a cause to hold on to when abandoning it.

Well, from the outset, there is no clinical evidence that supports the belief that being female is a risk factor for obesity. On the other hand, it has been shown that castration, by itself, is never the main reason for the animal's weight gain. Knowing this should start to put these kinds of beliefs aside.

The reduction in physical activity caused by castration, however, we can say that it is the main cause of obesity after spaying.

There may be a greater tendency for obesity in some breeds of dogs, however there are no scientific studies to support this theory.

We are responsible

Other factors that predispose an animal to obesity include advanced age, basic diet of foods prepared by and for humans, have an obese owner and have a middle-aged or elderly owner. These factors are related to low quality food intake and low physical activity. As I said before, on this issue, our point of view, and the treatment we give to the issue, have a lot to do with it.

Take a few extra kilos from puppy

The physiological basis varies according to the different forms in which obesity can appear and develop. Overfeeding during growth increases the number of fat cells, making weight loss much more difficult. Therefore, an animal during its growth should not be overfed.

The problem is that the recommendations for the dosage of pet food that the industry usually offers us, causes young animals to be overfed. This supposes of exit, the establishment of the bases so that the dogs develop all type of diseases.

Large breed dogs, for example, should be fed 15 to 20 percent less than what the pet food industry recommends. This reduction reduces orthopedic problemss related to supercharging.

How to know if we have obese dogs?

As I said before, You are the one who sees him or does not see him fat, he does not see himself and if he did, believe me, he would not care. Dogs depend on us in this matter too, and it is as I say again a matter of our point of view. Whether or not you see your fat dog.

Far from anchoring the subject in the merely aesthetic, your judgment should be objective enough to know when your dog is a couple of kilos more than when he already has an obesity problem that can lead to any type of pathology.

I also want to clarify that when forming an opinion, we should have a vet to help us analyze the situation from a professional point of view. Then the main risk factor also reappears: humans. There are people who are not able to put themselves on a diet, so imagine putting their pets.

When the human is an obese person who enjoys excessively the pleasure of food, the pet will not be given any treatment for obesity. Normally, 100% of dogs with obesity problems (when the owner recognizes an obesity identified by a veterinarian, which sometimes does not happen) 60% will never have treatment. Of those who are under treatment, 55% will not lose weight. Of those who lose weight, 70% will regain it in less than 6 months.

This is due to two very different factors. On the one hand, that products such as light feed are designed to further enrich the feed manufacturer at the expense of your dog's problem, and on the other hand, that instead of looking for another type of solution, more logical, When we see that what the vet tells us does not work, we return to the same customs when it comes to rationing the food to our animal that led him to gain weight.

Obesity health effects

The most common medical problem that arises from obesity is arthritis. There are many drugs for the treatment of arthritis. If drugs are ineffective, the pet's weight must be reduced to control arthritis. Humans usually start a treatment to reduce the weight of our pet when we recognize that only weight reduction can help control obesity.

More diseases and medical problems associated with obesity in dogs include orthopedic problems such as herniated intervertebral discs and torn knee ligaments. Obese animals also have difficulty breathing and maintaining normal circulation.

Other diseases that our obese pets are more likely to have are: diabetes or skin problems. Surgery is more difficult in obese animals and their healing is slower, as well as making them more prone to developing complications or reactions to anesthesia.

Despite these problems, there are many owners who are not able to reduce the weight of their pets, being only when the situation is unsustainable at the health level (due to lameness or some irreversible pathology), it is when humans usually make decisions definitive.

We should be able to take into account in a more consistent way that our dog's weight is related to its health. This also happens in humans. Believe me

Taking charge of the situation

Education comes first

It is very important for the dog obesity treatment to achieve the required objective, educating the client on how to feed their dog. The key to success we could say that it is in an effective education of the human, which is the one that provides the food to the animal and therefore, where the main source of the problem resides, either one way or another.

Often little education is given. Dogs are diagnosed as obese, and the vet always does the same: prescribe a feed for dogs with obesity problemsAlthough most of these feeds, from advertising campaigns worth millions of euros, have not passed even a clinical trial to prove that they are effective in treating obesity. They are simply prescribed as a safe remedy, being totally ineffective most of the time.

Managing the situation in favor of obese dogs

The education of the human in how to feed the animal correctly, is much more useful when it comes to approaching this issue, and places the responsibility of the situation in the right place: in the hands of the one who feeds.

All the feed-based industrial weight loss diets, in addition to not working, it can give us the impression that we have nothing to do, that there is no other solution to the problem or any other type of emotional management that places the solution outside our scope of action, and makes us abandon our I try to place our dog at its right weight, the animal being the one that pays with its health.

Being realistic

Treating obesity in our dogs is very easy to say and not so easy to do. Especially in the case of adult or elderly dogs. Fighting against the eating habits of a lifetime is something that is not easy, especially without knowing what you are doing.

Subtracting food from the animal's intake, or entrusting its feeding to industrial feed from the so-called lights, can be very harmful to the health of our dog, by subtracting nutrients and calories, without knowing what is really done. You have to be very careful with this.

Action protocols

Management and owner education for obesity should be based on the following protocol. This protocol includes a series of simple, easy-to-understand steps. The protocol is essential for successful weight reduction.

1. Estimate what would be the ideal weight of the pet, using the tables and lists of weights for each breed. Know the current body weight of the pet and the optimal or normal weight, as well as calculate the weight that the body needs to lose.
2. Weight loss will occur only when energy intake is less than expenditure.
3. Establish a new routine at mealtime, with a new diet, with new recipes, with a fixed amount of food per day, which we will distribute among a greater number of intakes.
4. To lose weight little by little, not wanting to lose the weight of the animal from 30 to 20 kilos in a month, if not that it is a gradual process, that does not subject it to stress and that does not subject it to severe nutritional deficiencies. It is better little by little, than reducing a lot and then recovering what was lost and something else.

Recipes

Before you start cooking

First of all, bear in mind that when it comes to rationing, we are going to do it by separating each daily ration into 5 servings, since we are going to increase the number of food intakes of our furry friend to 5 a day. This way we will start your stomach 5 times a day, which will make you accelerate your metabolism at the same time that each time you do a digestion, you will ingest fewer calories than you would spend on digestion.

On the other hand, we will always give him food according to his energy expenditure, always between 1,5% and 3% of his body weight. Always higher percentages for smaller breeds.

We are also going to reduce the weight of the ration little by little as follows:

• We calculate its weight, for example 30 kilos (by calculating I mean weighing the animal, never by eye, of course)
• We establish a logical weight reduction, for example losing 2 kilos in 2 months, which would take you to 28 kilos.
• We calculate the rations according to the weight to which we want to reduce, which following the example, would be 28 kilos, therefore, if we say that our dog weighs 28 kilos and we have to give it, due to its size and activity, 2% of its body weight , that would be 560gr.
• These 560gr would be divided into 5 intakes, leaving portions of about 115gr approximately.
• When you cook a piece of chicken, you should know that it increases its calories. Follow the instructions exactly.

Chicken with Boiled Rice

• 228gr of fresh Chicken
• 320gr of long grain boiled rice
• 3 gr powdered bone meal (optional if you are not going to give it bones)
• 1/5 multi vitamin and mineral tablets (made for adult humans)

This diet provides 620 calories, 49,6 grams protein, and 4,7 grams of fat, to meet the needs of a medium-sized dog (about 20 kilos) with an average activity per day.

You can add some asparagus or carrots, counting that this will provide more calories and will not raise the fat level much.

Make a smooth whipped mixture with the vegetables, salt, vitamins and bone powder (if necessary), that will be the sauce for the chicken and rice.

Chicken with Boiled Potatoes

• 228gr of fresh Chicken
• 369gr of long grain boiled rice
• 3 gr powdered bone meal (optional if you are not going to give it bones)
• 1/5 multi vitamin and mineral tablets (made for adult humans)

This diet provides 630 Kcalories, 47,6gr protein, and 4,5gr of fat, to meet the needs of a medium-sized dog (about 20 kilos) with an average activity per day.

You can add boiled spinach or some pumpkin, counting that this will provide more calories and will not raise the fat level much.

Make a smooth whipped mixture with the vegetables, the salt, the vitamins and the powdered bone (if necessary), that will be the sauce for the chicken and the potatoes, as well as you can make a puree with everything except the chicken and give a new approach. Varying the texture or shape of food will encourage you to eat better.

Boiled Eggs with Boiled Rice

• 4 boiled eggs.
• 369gr of long grain boiled rice
• 30gr of Broccoli
• 3 gr powdered bone meal (optional if you are not going to give it bones)
• 1/5 multi vitamin and mineral tablets (made for adult humans)

This diet provides 491 Kcal, 22,3gr protein, and 2,8gr of fat, to meet the needs of a medium-sized dog (about 20 kilos) with an average activity per day.

You can add some tomatoes or brussels sprouts, and make a smooth whipped mixture with the vegetables, salt, vitamins and bone powder (if necessary), that will be the sauce for the eggs and rice.

Boiled Eggs with Boiled Potatoes

• 4 boiled eggs.
• 369gr of Boiled Potatoes with skin and everything
• 30gr of Broccoli
• 3 gr powdered bone meal (optional if you are not going to give it bones)
• 1/5 multi vitamin and mineral tablets (made for adult humans)

This diet provides 495 Kcalories, 20,3gr protein, and 3,2gr of fat, to meet the needs of a medium-sized dog (about 20 kilos) with an average activity per day.

You can add some peppers or chard (always cooked or fried vegetables), counting on that this will give you more calories.

Cottage cheese with boiled potatoes

• 113gr of Cottage Cheese or Cottage Cheese
• 369gr of Boiled Potatoes with skin and everything
• 30gr of Broccoli or Brussels Sprouts
• 3 gr powdered bone meal (optional if you are not going to give it bones)
• 1/5 multi vitamin and mineral tablets (made for adult humans)

This diet provides 508 Kcalories, protein 22,8gr, and provides 3,9gr of fat, to meet the needs of a medium-sized dog (about 20 kilos) with an average activity per day.

You can add some peas or cherry tomatoes, and make a smooth whipped mixture with the vegetables, the cheese, the salt, the vitamins and the bone powder (if necessary), that will be the ideal sauce for the boiled potatoes.

Cottage cheese with boiled rice

• 113gr of Cottage Cheese or Cottage Cheese
• 320gr of Boiled Potatoes with skin and everything
• 30gr of Broccoli or Brussels Sprouts
• 3 gr powdered bone meal (optional if you are not going to give it bones)
• 1/5 multi vitamin and mineral tablets (made for adult humans)

This diet provides 512 Kcalories, 22,6 g protein, and 4,3 g of fat, to meet the needs of a medium-sized dog (about 20 kilos) with an average activity per day.

You can add some white asparagus or some carrots, boiled of course, counting on the fact that this will give you more calories and will not raise the level of fat.

Make a smooth whipped mixture with the vegetables, cheese, salt, vitamins and bone powder (if necessary), that will be the sauce for the rice.

Hen&Stag

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Greetings and take care of your dogs.